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A grossely obvious presentation of one side of a real debate about manned space exploration. Transparent and over-acted. The question of manned deep space exploration is a real one: are we wasting mon... ey or not? Will man ever leave the solar sysem and to what avail? The closest starts to us are maybe 22-24 light years away. That's over 100 trillion miles. That's the closest. Everything else is further. It is not a question of whether there are intelligent beings in outer space, I would bet my life on it. Maybe a million of them. Maybe a billion. But so what? If we can't get there and they can't get here, there's no point in wasting the money on MANNED exploration. Use probes, use radio-telescopes, any device you want but leave man at home in hjis solar system. The movie is silly and dramatic and nonsensical. Einstein says we can't travel faster than light speed. Okay let's dothat first. Let's first move a particel faster than light without destroying its physical properties. IF we can do that, and we haven't to date, then move on to increasingly larger bodies. When we find we can do that with a mass, come back and we will rethink our position. For now, man is not going into deep space. Ever. The distances are simply too great no matter what contrivance we come up (i.e. putting astronauts into a 50-100 year deep sleep). No, space in meant to be insular and it is and until someone proves it isn't,l we are stuck with it. Everything has limits and so does man. Full Review

June 13, 2010

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Contact is that rare big-budget motion picture that places ideas, characters, and plot above everything else. Full Review

James Berardinelli

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Contact is superior popular filmmaking, both polished and effective. But despite its success and its serious intentions, it's finally a movie where the storytelling makes more of an impact than the story.Full Review

Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

Sagan's novel Contact provides the inspiration for Robert Zemeckis' new film, which tells the smartest and most absorbing story about extraterrestrial intelligence since "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."Full Review

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

If you sign on, disarmed of irony, for her trip -- I did -- you'll be rewarded with a rare thing that may in itself prove the existence of a Higher Power: a Hollywood entertainment that makes you consider deep thoughts.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Faithful to Sagan's brand of popularized science, the film never reaches beyond Hollywood spectacle and sentimentality.Full Review

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